Rembrandt
A 1911 German monograph on the painter Rembrandt van Rijn, written by art historian Hermann Knackfuss and published in Bielefeld for a general art-reading audience. The pictures are reproductions of Rembrandt's etchings and paintings: genre interiors with figures in dim rooms, a self-portrait etching of a man in a beret, and pen-and-ink sketches of figures in landscape. A designer might take from them the cross-hatched shadow, loose linework, and strong chiaroscuro that give the figures weight against plain backgrounds.
